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- English Word Reyse Definition To raise.
- English Word Reyse Definition To go on a military expedition.
- English Word Rh/tian Definition Rhetain.
- English Word Rh/tic Definition Pertaining to, or of the same horizon as, certain Mesozoic strata of the Rhetian Alps. These strata are regarded as closing the Triassic period. See the Chart of Geology.
- English Word Rh/tizite Definition A variety of the mineral cyanite.
- English Word Rhabarbarate Definition Impregnated or tinctured with rhubarb.
- English Word Rhabarbarin Definition Alt. of Rhabarbarine
- English Word Rhabarbarine Definition Chrysophanic acid.
- English Word Rhabdite Definition A minute smooth rodlike or fusiform structure found in the tissues of many Turbellaria.
- English Word Rhabdite Definition One of the hard parts forming the ovipositor of insects.
- English Word Rhabdocoela Definition A suborder of Turbellaria including those that have a simple cylindrical, or saclike, stomach, without an intestine.
- English Word Rhabdocoelous Definition Of or pertaining to the Rhabdocoela.
- English Word Rhabdoidal Definition See Sagittal.
- English Word Rhabdolith Definition A minute calcareous rodlike structure found both at the surface and the bottom of the ocean; -- supposed by some to be a calcareous alga.
- English Word Rhabdology Definition Same as Rabdology.
- English Word Rhabdom Definition One of numerous minute rodlike structures formed of two or more cells situated behind the retinulae in the compound eyes of insects, etc. See Illust. under Ommatidium.
- English Word Rhabdomancy Definition Same as Rabdomancy.
- English Word Rhabdomere Definition One of the several parts composing a rhabdom.
- English Word Rhabdophora Definition An extinct division of Hydrozoa which includes the graptolities.
- English Word Rhabdopleura Definition A genus of marine Bryozoa in which the tubular cells have a centralchitinous axis and the tentacles are borne on a bilobed lophophore. It is the type of the order Pterobranchia, or Podostomata
- English Word Rhabdosphere Definition A minute sphere composed of rhabdoliths.
- English Word Rhachialgia Definition See Rachialgia.
- English Word Rhachides Definition of Rhachis
- English Word Rhachidian Definition Of or pertaining to the rhachis; as, the rhachidian teeth of a mollusk.
- English Word Rhachiglossa Definition A division of marine gastropods having a retractile proboscis and three longitudinal rows of teeth on the radula. It includes many of the large ornamental shells, as the miters, murices, olives, purpuras, volutes, and whelks. See Illust. in Append.
- English Word Rhachilla Definition A branch of inflorescence; the zigzag axis on which the florets are arranged in the spikelets of grasses.
- English Word Rhachiodont Definition Having gular teeth formed by a peculiar modification of the inferior spines of some of the vertebrae, as certain South African snakes (Dasypeltis) which swallow birds' eggs and use these gular teeth to crush them.
- English Word Rhachis Definition The spine.
- English Word Rhachis Definition The continued stem or midrib of a pinnately compound leaf, as in a rose leaf or a fern.
- English Word Rhachis Definition The principal axis in a raceme, spike, panicle, or corymb.